Re: Q: From Header Line

Al Gilman (asgilman@access.digex.net)
Sat, 30 May 1998 09:50:35 -0400 (EDT)

I am sure this is a FAQ.

What is the origin of the two syntactic forms for a poster?

The form

is what is in RFC 822, as I recall. I have always regarded
the form

as "screen syntax" for inclusion in plain-text message-body
contexts. It could be used for the interactive presentation
of headers, but

I would be inclined to think any tool that doesn't accept the
original RFC-822 form is broken.

Is there somewhere (like in the archiving software at RTFM) in
the news.answers infrastructure a tool that requires the
second syntax?

Is this an early mail/news divergence?

A question answered in a FAQ document?

Al Gilman